Recent content by Khryz

Thank you. I feel like I know the answer though. It's like taking a powerlifter now who is benching 3x his BW and then suddenly putting him on a bodybuilder diet -- will be grow even though he is not making as much gains and when he increased his bench so much while restricting calories? Doubt it.

.. by dieting? See, I haven't lifted in 2 years because of a shoulder injury, had surgery in December, and am not lightly and slowly getting back into lifting. At the same time, I was considering dieting down to drop some BF before beach season but am having second thoughts. With 2 years...

I think a glass of wine is a little better than most beer because wine has more anti-oxidants in it. When I say most beer I mean light beer. Not sure how wine compares to "real" beer.

Agreed with the above post. You're not simply bending over with a rounded back - THAT would be very dangerous. With proper GM's with an arched back in your neutal spine position (very important), you first release your hips and glutes backwards and this takes lots of the load off your lower...

Gread idea for a thread! Currently I'm attempting pretty much all of the training methods mentioned here to help get my Big 3 up. It seems that box squats are a high favorite here.

I ordered it from Amazon. Madcow, do you know his e-mail address off-hand?

Does anybody know what the deal is with this? I ordered this for Christmas and it's not supposed to come now till the end of February.

I'm kinda in the same situation now. I'm on my 4th week of DF 5x5 and and I went from a 205 5RM bench to a 220 5RM bench already. I don't want to deload now because I feel fine and strong so I'm going to just extend the loading period until I feel like I'm over-reaching and that I need to...

Another question for you Madcow, thanks .. Next week I start my deload, and I'm thinking that since this is my first time on the program I would be better suited starting out with the 2x per week deload/intensity split at first to see how I feel. I can always switch back to the 3x per week...

Hey Madcow, I was just wondering if you had a few more moments to answer some 5x5 questions, if not I understand - you've already helped me out a lot. Firstly, I have question on why there is 4 weeks of the loading and then 4 weeks of the deload when the dual factor theory says fatigue...

I like the idea of following 5x5 with DFHT, then repeating.

Wait, I'm confused - so when and how much Fish Oils should you be taking while dieting?

It's fine for me since I'm a hardgainer.

Last year I tried the Diet Only approach to cutting and was only able to get down to about 10-11% BF, definately not as low as I wanted - mostly because I hated cardio. But this year will be different. It's much more effective to eat 2,500 kcal daily and burn 500 from cardio, than it is to...

That sounds great but I'm not interested in staying lean, I need to GET lean first. I'm probably around 15-16% BF now and I want to get down to atleast 8-9% starting the beginning of Feb and ending the middle of May, around 3 months. So I would need to incorporate a lot more cardio than that...